Dwarf Planet Pluto

The disk-shaped belt of icy particles in Pluto's orbital neighborhood is called the Kuiper Belt.

Yes, there are many rocks that are orbiting the sun. Some examples of these rocks would be meteorites or asteroids that circle the sun due to the combined forces of the sun's gravitational force, and the rocks forward momentum. This keeps the rock from falling into the star, but at the same time, prevents the body from escaping the sun's gravitational force. Most of these meteorites are located in belts between mars and Jupiter, and in a belt outside of Pluto, however there are many stragglers that follow erratic courses apart from the others. Kapeesh?

As you get closer to the sun, the speed of planets increases due to the stronger gravitational pull from the sun. This increase in speed is necessary to balance the pull of gravity with the planet's tendency to move in a straight line. This phenomenon is described by Kepler's second law of planetary motion.

Comets are believed to have originated in the Oort cloud, a region of icy bodies located in the outermost reaches of the solar system. These comets are thought to have been scattered towards the inner solar system by the gravitational influence of nearby passing stars or giant planets.

The four giant planets are comprised mostly of an outer layer of molecular hydrogen and helium and a much thicker layer of metallic hydrogen. However, each may have a small solid core as large as three to 20 Earth masses at their center.In the several decades old, "bottoms-up" or "core-accretion" model, the primordial disk of gas and dust that coalesced into the planetesimals and formed the planets and other planetary bodies was colder in the outer Solar System, being much farther away from the developing Sun. As a result, water and other substances that existed as volatile gases and liquids in the inner nebula were frozen into ices and supplemented the mass of disk materials being accreted into large protoplanets. Because of the greater mass concentration from ices available beyond five times the Earth-Sun distance (AU) from Sol, these protoplanets are thought to have grown much more quickly to greater size than those in warmer, inner orbits. Once these ice-rock planetary bodies grew to a critical threshold size somewhere between five to 10 times the mass of the Earth, their gravity became so great that they began to pull in large amounts of gas directly from the surrounding Solar nebula to form giant protoplanets. Finally, as happened with the inner planets, the largest protoplanet in each local swarm drew in smaller ones to form the planets now observed through collisions, or threw them out of their original orbits into the Oort Cloud, interstellar space, or into collisions with other Solar System objects such as the Sun.According to astronomer Alan P. Boss (Astronomy, October 2006), there's little agreement among astronomers on how the largest gas giants in the Solar System (Jupiter and Saturn) and even larger, recently discovered extra-solar giant planets may have formed. According to the "top-down" or "disk-instability" model, concentrations of a protoplanetary disk's hydrogen and helium gas (which makes up most of its mass) can grow by pulling more gas onto themselves through gravitational attraction. Hence, in a few orbital periods, spiral arms can form and collide within the disk like those in spiral galaxies in a runaway process leading to clumps of gas within a thousand years. If dense amd cool enough, these gas clumps quickly contract and collapse into gas-giant protoplanets which attract dust particles that fall into planetary cores. Between the polar extremes of the tops-down and bottoms-up models, however, astronomers have also developed hybrid mechanisms that incorporate elements of both models.

Scientists have never been able to look inside the four gaseous planets, but there are a lot of indirect evidence that there a surface but not a surface that you would think of. When you would land the surface would be extremely hot. You would need extremely advanced technology to actually land on its surface. The extremely fast winds rushing through the planet would also be a factor. Also the gas that is on each of these planets are extremely poisonous to us. The heat generated from the planet would also burn up the ship not to mention the pressure from the gas planet.

Pluto is not owned by anyone. It is a dwarf planet located in our solar system and is considered a part of the larger celestial community that belongs to all of humanity.

When a planet has two moons, both moons would interact with the planet's gravity and affect each other's orbits. This can lead to complex gravitational interactions between the moons, causing changes in their orbits over time. The presence of two moons can also influence tidal forces on the planet, affecting its surface and climate.

Pluto's special weakness is said to be his infatuation with Proserpina, whom he kidnaps and takes as his queen to the underworld. This vulnerability is exploited in some myths to gain favor or leverage against him.

Pluto's composition is primarily made up of rock and water ice, with a thin atmosphere of nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. Its surface is covered in a frozen crust of methane and nitrogen ice, with evidence of geologic activity such as flowing glaciers and frosty mountain peaks. Pluto is classified as a dwarf planet and is located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

Neptune and Pluto are two heavenly bodies that were predicted to exist before they were sighted. Neptune's existence was predicted based on perturbations in the orbit of Uranus, while Pluto's existence was predicted based on gravitational influences on the orbits of Neptune and Uranus.

Liquid Core

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Terrestrial Planets-Rocky

Small

Few Moons

Small(compared to gas giants)

Gas Planets - Helium and Hydrogen based

Denser cores.

Have rings.

Many Moons.

Very large

Longer Revolution time.

Comparisons- Planets

Under the sun's gravitational pull.

Part of Milky Way galaxy

No, planets do not revolve around the sun at the same speed. Their orbital speeds depend on their distance from the sun - planets closer to the sun have shorter orbital periods and faster speeds, while those further away have longer orbital periods and slower speeds.

Planet X is the theorized, but unconfirmed, "10th" planet in our solar system (when we had 9 planets total and Pluto was still considered a true planet). This elusive "Planet X" was thought most likely to be a gas giant and probably the cause of Pluto's off-planar orbital tilt. It was also thought to be the cause for some strange behavior with Neptune in respect to the other gas giants. In fact hunting for "Planet 9" was why Pluto was discovered in the first place. It soon became apparent, however, that Pluto was not "massive" enough to have caused the anomalies with Neptune - hence the hunt for Planet X.

A planet with an eccentric orbit that crosses the orbit of another planet would create gravitational interactions and potential collisions between the two planets. This scenario could lead to disturbances in their orbits, potentially causing erratic behavior and possible impacts between the planets.

it has a one fifth mass of earths moon and one third volume of earths moon

Pluto sometimes approaches nearer to the sun than Saturn, because Pluto's orbit is elliptical, somewhat like a squashed circle. Pluto's orbit is also highly inclined at an angle of 17 degrees. Pluto takes 248-years to orbit the sun once, and at its closest point, comes within 30-astronomical units of the sun.

No, it is not. NO orbits of natural satellites are perfect circles. (And when NASA manages to achieve a perfectly circular orbit for an artificial satellite, it doesn't stay that way for very long!)

All orbits are ellipses. The Earth's orbit is pretty close to circular; it's only about a 3% eccentricity. On January 4th (or thereabouts) when Earth is closest to the Sun, it's about 91 million miles away; on July 2nd (or about) when the Earth is most distant, it's a little over 94 million miles.

It is similar to the asteroid belt, although it is far larger -- 20 times as wide and 20-200 times as massive. Like the asteroid belt, it consists mainly of small bodies (remnants from the Solar System's formation). It is home to at least three dwarf planets - Pluto, Haumea and Makemake. But while the asteroid belt is composed primarily of rock and metal, the Kuiper belt objects are composed largely of frozen volatiles (dubbed "ices"), such as methane, ammonia and water.

Pluto is no longer considered a planet. It has been renamed a "dwarf planet" since it shares its orbit with other, similar sized (or larger... Pluto's orbit crosses Neptune's, and Neptune is enormous compared to Pluto) bodies.

There are 8 known planets in the Solar System, and it's considered unlikely that more will be discovered if the current guidelines are kept (anything large enough to "sweep out its own orbit" would have a detectable impact on the orbit of Neptune).

There are around 500 confirmed "exoplanets" (planets orbiting stars other than the Sun).

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Pluto's mother was Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility in Greek mythology. She was also known as Ceres in Roman mythology.

To draw a picture of a dwarf planet, you can start by creating a round or oval shape to represent the body of the planet. You can then add features like craters, surface markings, or moons to make it more detailed. Adding labels for key characteristics like its name and size can also help enhance the drawing.